Quote by Walter Bagehot
A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. -

A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. – Walter Bagehot

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A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself. – Walter Bagehot

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The most intellectual of men are moved quite as much by the circumstances which they are used to as by their own will. The active voluntary part of a man is very small, and if it were not economized by a sleepy kind of habit, its results would be null. – Walter Bagehot

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The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between ones real and ones declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink. – George Orwell

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Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. – Albert Einstein

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To me, acting is the most logical way for peoples neuroses to manifest themselves, in this great need we all have to express ourselves. – James Dean

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I do live like a rock star, but its not as great as it sounds. Its a lot of traveling. – Ron White

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